When I was a kid, I remember one random Saturday morning when my dad set out to teach us all a lesson. He had a “family huddle,” which was few and far between, and he…
In the business book community, there is a lot of noise. Every day there are books published that promise to change a certain behavior or increase effectiveness in another area, but most of these books…
Steve Jobs was unquestionably brilliant. The future of Apple, however, will test a much different leadership skill than anything we  saw in his lifetime. In Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, it is clear that he led…
I don’t really have the answer. I don’t have anything brilliant to say, but I do have a question: How do you lose yourself? Deadline-pressed and ever-connected, Â whether executives, entrepreneurs or moms pressed for every…
You’ve probably heard the business adage: “Great organizations are the shadow of the leader.” It makes sense that the culture, vision, direction, and control of the organization is cast by one leader. My question is:…
This morning, I was thinking about the story of Narcissus who caught sight of his reflection on the surface of the sea and was so infatuated that he slowly fell in and drowned while chasing…
Years ago I read a little book called the Tyranny of the Urgent. It’s a great read about allowing the unimportant trivialities of life crowding out the most important. We live in a distracted world,…